So, so embarrassing.
It’s been a while but it’s that time again–let’s look at my stupidest faces!
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- Here’s how I begin: sometimes looking like there are kids from the neighbourhood on my lawn and I’m fed up of it
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- You’ve also gotta make sure strangers on the street aren’t watching, because that’s embarrassing
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- Gotta check my under arms are fresh, then be real pleased with myself for it. PA-TING!
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- Gotta warm up my lips so I don’t look dumb with a weird pout, like this
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- And theeeen it’s time for the inexplicable stupid faces
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- I’d like to say that I can remember a reason I pulled them, such as in reaction to external stimuli
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- But you know, most of the time I have no excuse
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- This is just the kind of awkward shit my face does
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- If it happens enough times, we begin to laugh
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- And then we get the giggles
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- Especially when strangers in public see it happening and I have to try to chuckle my way out of it in a charming fashion
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- God forbid if anyone is watching when a gust of wind comes into play…
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- Or I need to adjust my clothing, because when I adjust my clothing…
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- It…
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- Does not…
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- Look…
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- Cute…
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- At all.
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- But it’s because if I don’t pull a stupid face while I adjust myself
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- There will just be a similarly bad picture in which I earnestly adjust with a different stupid face
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- So if I’m gonna be caught on camera looking nutso while I adjust
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- I may as well make people wonder if I’m actually an old lady suffering excruciating back pain
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- *scoffs* Yep, the weird old lady thing is better. Because there’s also what happens to my face when I fall
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- This. This is what happens when I fall.
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- It’s embarrassing
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- So, so embarrassing.
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- Good lord!
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- There’s also this weird grimace that happens when my timer remote and I get out of sync as I begin to smile
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- There are shoots where it happens constantly
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- And it is the worst
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- Other times I’m just bad at keeping my eyes open long enough
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- Although sometimes that’s the sun’s fault!
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- …Not that I perform much better when given a hat to help out
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- Other times, I don’t even know WHY my face is a nightmare
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- BUT DEAR GOD WOULD YOU LOOK AT THIS!! It’s like someone offered to let me eat their poop, why am I pulling that face? In front of a CAMERA?!
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- Seriously, Amy, you know there’s a camera here, why are you stooping into bad positions playing with grass?!?! I don’t care if it’s tickling you
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- Going back for a sec to the issue of a bright sun shoot…Sigh.
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- Adding glasses can help…unless I realise the cat has found me
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- Then I just give up for a few minutes until she gets bored and goes away, because she’s a cute but terrible shoot partner
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- Though not everything is her fault. This shot is literally ‘I don’t understand how to pose with a shoulder bag’ confusion
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- I suppose that’s better than what happens when I get bored between shots on long shoots, which is this face
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- No, seriously. This is my ‘I need a second’ face
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- As well as my ‘We’ve got it, let’s move on’ face
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- You know, because saying ‘Cool, think we’ve got it’ makes too much sense
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- Instead this gaping blackhole mouth of doom as I launch myself at my photographer is clearly the better way to communicate ‘we’re done!’
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- I can also get a bit chatty on shoots, so we end up with odd mid-talking shots
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- Or reactions of deep worry when someone gives me bad news
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- Then there’s the times I’m deeply unamused by people walking through the shot, you know, as if we’re just in public and they have a right to be there???
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- Although days when I shoot at home alone there’ll still be something distracting me, like family who come out to find me or watch through the windows
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- Such as on this day, when my youngest niece was watching from the conversatory
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- And I didn’t play up to that aallll
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- Not one bit. Every frame is professional and focused
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- It’s not like I could get distracted so thoroughly in the literal 2 seconds between pressing my remote and the camera taking the shot that I’d end up with a shot as bad as…this
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- Although, it’s not just family that distracts me. Sometimes it’s ducks!
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- Sometimes it’s the dog, Eddie, at my friend’s housesitting job
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- Sometimes it’s my own feet, apparently??
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- Although it’s often the dog
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- Like, 80% of the time, it’s the dog
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- NAH SCREW IT, GUYS, THE DOG IS BACK, I’M OUT! CUDDLE TIME!
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- But this day, I finally focused and what happened? The cat found me
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- And I didn’t even notice for a while, just wasting my energy with pointless shots
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- Theeeere we go, that’s the face of a woman who has noticed the cat at last. Took ya time.
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- Though you’ll be amazed how often the cat finds me several frames before I realize.
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- Amazingly on this day every shot she was in she looked 100% better than I did
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- Whatever, TIME FOR SOME TEAPOT ACTION!
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- TEAPOT, SLEEPY TEAPOT!
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- And then…this? Um, what exactly was I trying to achieve with this pose? Because if it was ‘excitable child found the camera’ I NAILED IT
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- Because, sure, if something is worth doing badly once, it’s worth doing badly twice. AIMZ DON’T COME SO CLOSE TO THE LENS IT DOESN’T WORK DUDE!
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- This is my ‘I don’t know so I’m going to pull an obnoxiously awkward face’ face
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- Which apparently I can sometimes hold for longer than one shot. Excellent. Very necessary.
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- WE PAUSE NOW TO BRING YOU THIS REAL LIFE ***SPONGEBOB MEME***
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- Now, sometimes when I shoot alone I accidentally hit my remote while I’m still getting ready. Which is great, because then you get to see super attractive shots like this
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- And this. Sweet baby Jesus.
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- Other times I just hit the remote too early and you get the grimace face + teapot hand shot like this
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- Or the adjusting myself + eyes closed shot
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- Although I was fully ready in this shot and I still messed it up, since it’s A SHOT THAT’S SUPPOSED TO FOCUS ON THE DAMN SHOES! Get your framing right, woman!
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- If I mess up too many times in a row then suddenly I begin to get a bit stir crazy and act like this to shake it out
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- Did I say shake it out? I meant act like a 3 year old
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- Who doesn’t want to tidy her room, muuuum come on, it’s fine!
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- But mostly I just hit the remote at the wrong time
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- And then it’s back to being a child
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- And being distracted by the dog
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- Speaking of! Just testing my framing for the shot…with my Furrtastic Sneaky friend as my stand in
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- I was so sure when taking this shot I was gonna look like a glowy goddess…nope, that’s not how an amateur shooting in sunlight works
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- I am so appalled by how much this looks exactly like a child attempting to twirl
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- WHAT IS THAT! That is genuinely ‘look, Mum, look what I got my skirt to do! No hands!!’
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- Just…childlike joy but blogging failure
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- Although speaking of being childlike, this shot screams ‘6 year old found her mum’s glasses and feels V V cool’
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- I guess those shots are still better than this one. YIKES! Look at that gormless upshot of my many chins
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- ‘Well howdy, partner, I’m the Sheriff of this here Sleepytown’
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- ‘Okay, so, I sat on the wall like you said, but…what do I do with my hands though?’
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- Sure, because the best way to test the focus is to just shove your fingers right up to the lens
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- AND DANCE BREAK, SHA!
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- Well if you will wear heels to shoot in fields, what do you expect?
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- Sneezing or itchy nose?
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- I thought it might look dreamy if I half hid behind a tree…Kinda didn’t factor in the forehead leaves
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- I was clearly on fire with my framing this day, really into the intrusive foliage look
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- Forget it, let me play you some soothing invisible guitar
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- No, not a fan. What about invisible bongos?
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- What about if I make an effort for a shot, but forget to open my eyes? Is that fun?
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- HOW ABOUT WHEN I SEE THE CAT AND THIS TIME I’M SUPER EXCITED BECAUSE IT’S FREEZING BECAUSE I’M SHOOTING A CUT-OUT PLAYSUIT IN FEBRUARY AND I LOVE HER?
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- ‘Lily, I’m really cold but I’m so pleased to see you, I love you’
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- And then this shot is ‘Well I should have seen this coming’
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- ‘Maybe I can lean into it and get some cute bonus shots?’ I think
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- ‘Yes, that’ll be a great idea, cute cat pictures’ I think smugly
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- Forgetting that our cat doesn’t stay still for a second, nor does she look at the camera, so this earnestly trying face is pointless
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- And that this definitely will not work, at all, even if I add in props
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- ‘Ummm…maybe this isn’t gonna produce the kind of results I pictured’
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- ‘Ah forget it, gimme a kiss and then you can go.’ Cat? Not interested at all. Hates kisses. Photographic documentation that my cat doesn’t care
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- GOD, WHY AM I SHOWING YOU THESE DEEPLY EMBARRASSING MOMENTS?
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- Screw it, I’m out, LATERZ
Miss Amy May 
It’s the most wonderful time of the year….haha jk, I just so get a kick out of these posts. You’re too much fun – and I can always relate to a handful of these!! Glad you got these up successfully after all! Here’s to a 2018 full of bloopers!
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Bloopers for everyone in 2018! Lol, it is fun to see how much people enjoy these posts, makes the frustration of tiring shoot days worth it
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Hahaha, I do that too. It takes a lot of photos to get a good photo of me!
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YES!! Blooper time again! Love the cat shots! 😀
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She is a cheeky little monkey!
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LOL I love this so hard. Thank you for sharing 🙂 It totally made my morning!
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That’s what I’m here for, sharing my awkwardness to improve other people’s days!
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I am practicing taking my own photos and I get plenty of awful and unintentionally funny ones!
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